STATE BREAD SCHEME.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17036, 10 December 1915, Page 8

STATE BREAD SCHEME.

OPPOSED'BY BAKERS’ UNION

TO. COST,£6OO,OOO,

By Telegraph—PrM» Association —Copyright.

SYDNEY, December 9

Caucus ‘ finally endorsed Mr Hall’s State. Bread, Monopoly- Bill. • The scheme will .cost approximately . £600,000, the Government taking over the whole of the existing bakeries in the metropolitan area.

Forty central bakeries will be required from which tjie present cart deliveries. will be continued. Later- on a central bakery Will be equipped with the' most modern machinery, and a fleet of motors to replace the forty scattered bakeries and • horse-carts. The Operative. Bakers’ Union lias passed a resolution emphatically protesting against the scheme, which they contend will .mean the dismissal of hun -' v dreds of workers.

EMPLOYERS PROTEST.

(Received December 9, 10.40 p.m.) ’. .SYDNEY, December 9.

A general meeting of employers entered a strong protest against the State .bread' monopoly,' asking that before, the; scheme was adbpted the Government should appoint a Royal Commission'to.inquire into the commercial and financial aspect. 7